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You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it
for long. ~ Boris
Yeltsin

selected by Nanobug

2004

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of
us who do. ~ Anonymous

The above variant was how this quotation was originally posted.
It seems to be derived from this statement since attributed to a
specific author: Those people who think they know everything are a
great annoyance to those of us who do. ~ Isaac Asimov

selected by Kalki

2005

Could you see the storm rising?
Could you see the guy who was driving?
Could you climb higher and higher?
Could you climb right over the top?
~ Kate Bush

proposed by Kalki, from "King of the Mountain", the first
single from Bush's first album in 12 years, made available for
download on 27 September 2005.

2006

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior
power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative
authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
~ Samuel Adams
(born 27 September 1722)

proposed by Kalki

2007

You can decide what you want to eat for dinner, you can decide
to go away for the weekend, and you can decide what clothes you’re
going to wear in the morning, but when it comes to artistic things,
there’s never a rhyme or reason. It’s, like, they just happen. And
they happen when they happen. ~ Meat Loaf

proposed by Kalki

2008

If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms
renounce or give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of
reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such
renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty,
it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily
become a slave. ~ Samuel Adams

proposed by Kalki

2009

The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil
constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty
to defend them against all attacks. We have receiv'd them as a fair
Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: They purchas'd them for us
with toil and danger and expence of treasure and blood; and
transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an
everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened
as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by
violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the
artifices of false and designing men. Of the latter we are in most
danger at present: Let us therefore be aware of it. Let us
contemplate our forefathers and posterity; and resolve to maintain
the rights bequeath'd to us from the former, for the sake of the
latter. — Instead of sitting down satisfied with the efforts we
have already made, which is the wish of our enemies, the necessity
of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection,
deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance

Suggestions

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain
Meaning of Words! ~ Samuel Adams (born 27 September 1722)

3 InvisibleSun 13:49, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

3 Kalki 18:11, 26 September 2006 (UTC) with a lean toward
4.

1 Zarbon 23:29, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Did the protection we received annul our rights as men, and lay
us under an obligation of being miserable? Who among you, my
countrymen, that is a father, would claim authority to make your
child a slave because you had nourished him in infancy? ~ Samuel Adams

3 InvisibleSun 13:49, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

2 Kalki 06:13, 25 September 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward
3.

1 Zarbon 23:29, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty
is the authority and interest of one individual man, however
dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular
actions. ~ Samuel
Adams (born 27 September 1722)

3 Kalki 18:11, 26 September 2006 (UTC) with a lean toward
4.

3 InvisibleSun 19:03, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

2 Zarbon 23:29, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as
they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or
religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into
another. ~ Samuel
Adams (born 27 September 1722)

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